| Junior 1. (a.) Less advanced in age than another; younger. 2. (a.) Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain. 3. (a.) Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior. 4. (n.) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life. 5. (n.) A younger person. 6. (n.) Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course. Thesaurus Entries adolescent, after, assistant, attendant, baby, cadet, cog, common, commonality, commonalty, consecutive, creature, demeaning, disadvantaged, employee, ensuing, fledgling, flunky, follower, following, freshman, helper, hoi polloi, hopeful, humble, in the shade, infant, inferior, infra dig, juvenal, juvenile, later, less, lesser, lightweight, lineal, low, lower, lower class, lower orders, lowly, masses, midshipman, minor, modest, ordinary, pawn, plebe, posterior, pubescent, puisne, right-hand man, sapling, second fiddle, second rank, second string, secondary, senior, sequent, servant, servile, slip, soph, sophomore, sprig, stripling, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subsequent, subservient, succeeding, successive, teenager, teener, teenybopper, third rank, third string, third stringer, undergrad, undergraduate, underling, underprivileged, understrapper, upperclassman, vulgar, yes-man, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth |